List of people from Denver
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This is a list of famous people who were born in, lived in, or are commonly associated with Denver, Colorado.
[edit] Denver natives
- Tim Allen – comedian and actor[1]
- Victor Amaya – professional tennis player[2]
- India.Arie – Neo-Soul singer[3]
- Philip Bailey – R&B lead singer with Earth, Wind & Fire
- Chauncey Billups – starting point guard for the NBA's New York Knicks
- Sierra Boggess – stage actress
- Joseph Castanon – actor
- Duane "Dog" Chapman – bounty hunter[4]
- Beth Chapman – bounty hunter
- Lyssa Chapman – bounty hunter
- Mary Coyle Chase – playwright, author of Harvey
- Mark Cooney – NFL linebacker for the Green Bay Packers
- Ashly DelGrosso – professional dancer who appeared on Dancing with the Stars
- John Desmond – architect[5]
- Tomory Dodge – painter
- John Dolan – writer[6]
- Jess E. DuBois – artist, passionate about Indian art
- Jack Earle – silent film actor and sideshow performer, known for his massive height[7]
- John Eisenhower – son of Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Douglas Fairbanks – actor, screenwriter, director and producer
- David Fincher – music video and film director
- John Grahame – NHL goaltender for the Carolina Hurricanes
- Rodolfo Gonzales – Chicano Movement activist [now deceased]
- Pam Grier – actress
- Hanna R. Hall – actress[8]
- Roy Halladay – Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies
- Robert Heizer- archaeologist
- Pat Hingle – actor
- Virgil Jester – Major League Baseball pitcher
- Robert H. Johnson – Wyoming state senator, born in Denver in 1916
- Jonathan Kaye – professional golfer
- Joe Klopfenstein – NFL tight end for the St. Louis Rams
- Arnold Kramish (1923–2010), nuclear physicist on the Manhattan Project who was almost killed in a radioactive explosion.[9]
- Daniel M. Lewin – mathematician and entrepreneur who died on American Airlines Flight 11 during the September 11, 2001 attacks
- Jacqueline Madera – Miss Colorado USA 2006
- Tom Martino – consumer advocate and syndicated talk radio host
- Seeley G. Mudd – physician, professor, and major philanthropist to academic institutions
- L.H. Musgrove – outlaw lynched by a vigilante committee on November 23, 1868
- James D. Parriott – writer, director, & producer
- Trey Parker – creator of South Park television show
- Joseph C. Phillips – actor and political commentator
- Dean Reed – actor and singer-songwriter
- Gary Richard – NFL defensive back for the Green Bay Packers
- AnnaSophia Robb – actress
- Jerry Robertson – NASCAR driver
- Paul Romer – economist, major contributor to new growth theory
- Reese Roper – singer-songwriter
- Karl Rove – former Deputy White House Chief of Staff to George W. Bush
- Michael Ruffin – professional basketball player in the NBA
- 2 Cold Scorpio – professional wrestler
- Alan K. Simpson – Republican politician who served from 1979–97 as a United States Senator from Wyoming
- Isaac Slade – member of the band, The Fray (band)
- Jill Sobule – singer-songwriter
- Stephen Stohn – Canadian television producer (Degrassi franchise)
- Tom Tancredo – former Republican congressman in the U.S. House of Representatives
- The Fray – rock band
- Eve Torres – WWE Diva and model; 2007 WWE Diva Search Winner
- Jan-Michael Vincent – actor
- Frank Welker, famed cartoon voice actor[10]
- LenDale White – NFL running back, played for the University of Southern California
- Kip Winger – Lead singer and bass guitarist of the glam metal band Winger.
- Ace Young – pop-music singer-songwriter, American Idol finalist[11]
- John Fante – author
- Calais Campbell, professional football player (nil) Defensive End for the Arizona Cardinals
[edit] Born elsewhere, raised in Denver
These people were raised in Denver in their childhood years but were born elsewhere.
- Madeleine Albright- former United States Secretary of State, born in Prague, graduated from Kent Denver High School
- Stan Brakhage – avant-garde filmmaker, raised in Denver, graduated from South High School
- Neal Cassady – the beat generation icon was born in Salt Lake City, Utah
- Leland Chapman – bounty hunter, born in Groom, Texas
- Duane Lee Chapman Jr – bounty hunter, born in Pampa, Texas
- Don Cheadle – born in Kansas City, Missouri, graduated from East High School
- Ted Conover – journalist and author, born in Okinawa, Japan
- Judy Collins – folk singer, born in Seattle, Washington, graduated from East High School
- Donnette Thayer – songwriter, singer, graduated from East High School
- Madhuri Dixit – Indian actress married to Dr. Sriram Nene, a heart surgeon, born in Mumbai, India
- Bill Frisell – jazz guitarist and composer, born in Baltimore, Maryland
- John Grant – folk/rock musician
- Pam Grier – born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, attended East High School in Denver
- Joe Guese – guitarist of The Click Five, born in Omaha, Nebraska
- Vance Kirkland- artist, born in Ohio
- Hattie McDaniel – actress, born in Wichita, Kansas
- Pat Oliphant – editorial cartoonist, born in Adelaide, Australia
- Mamie Eisenhower – former First Lady, born in Boone, Iowa.
- Golda Meir – former Prime Minister of Israel, lived in Denver for a time as a teenager. Born in Kiev, Ukraine
- Michael Ray Richardson – former NBA All-Star point guard, born in Lubbock, Texas, graduated from Manual High School
- Dianne Reeves – Jazz vocalist, winner of 4 Grammy awards for Best Jazz Vocal Album, graduated from George Washington High School. Born in Detroit, Michigan
- Matt Stone – creator of South Park television show, born in Houston, Texas, raised in Littleton (south of Denver)
- Lenora Mattingly Weber – writer, born in Missouri
- OneRepublic-band. Ryan Tedder born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is not known where the other members were born but Zach Filkins spent a majority of his early life in Spain and Brent Kutzle and Eddie Fisher are both from Orange County. Drew Brown (OneRepublic), however is from Broomfield, Colorado.
- Michael Winslow – comedian, born in Spokane, Washington, graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School
[edit] Denver transplants
These people lived in Denver as an adult, but were born and reared elsewhere.
- Charles Adams, United States military officer and foreign minister[12]
- Roseanne Barr – comedienne and actress, moved to Denver after high school, worked as a waitress, and got her start doing stand-up at comedy clubs in Denver
- Anthony R. Barringer – geophysicist and inventor
- Emily Gibson Braerton – V.P. Daughters of the American Revolution, raised in Council Grove, Kansas and Lawrence, Kansas
- Molly Brown – survivor of Titanic accident, born in Hannibal, Missouri
- Carlotta Walls LaNier- One of the Little Rock Nine group of African American students to first enter integrated schools, born Little Rock, Arkansas
- George Elbert Burr – early 20th century American artist, known for landscape paintings of the Rocky Mountains
- Jerome B. Chaffee – Colorado Senator, born in Cambria, New York, raised in Adrian, Michigan, founded Denver
- Marshall Colt - Actor and clinical psychologist, born and reared in New Orleans; former Denver resident; now living in San Diego
- Madhuri Dixit – Indian actress married to Dr. Sriram Nene, a heart surgeon. Dixit was born in Mumbai, India
- Lindsey Durlacher – wrestler, born in Evanston, Illinois
- John Elway – NFL Hall of Fame quarterback for the Denver Broncos 1983–98. Born in Port Angeles, Washington
- Frank Freyer – 14th Governor of Guam and Chief of Staff of the Peruvian Navy
- John Frullo – CPA formerly at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Denver, member of the Texas House of Representatives, originally from Rock Springs, Wyoming
- John Hickenlooper – Governor of Colorado, former mayor of Denver, born in Narberth, Pennsylvania
- Jason Hirsh – Major League Baseball pitcher
- Frances Wisebart Jacobs – philanthropist, born in Kentucky, raised in Ohio, moved to Denver and founded a number of charities.
- William Larimer, Jr. – founder of Denver, born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
- Bat Masterson – lawman, gunfighter, gambler, journalist, born in Canada
- Thomas MacDonald Patterson – U.S. politician, born in County Carlow, Ireland, raised in New York City and Crawfordsville, Indiana
- Arthur Roy Mitchell – Cowboy and western painter, originally from Trinidad, Colorado, spent his last two years of life in Denver, where he is interred.
- Federico Peña, born in Laredo, Texas; mayor of Denver (1983–1991); United States Secretary of Transportation (1993–1997); United States Secretary of Energy (1997–1998)
- Condoleezza Rice – born in Birmingham, Alabama; National Security Advisor (2001–2005); United States Secretary of State (2005–2009)
- Andrew J. Rogers (1828–1900) – represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1863–1867, and served as Denver's police commissioner after moving here in 1892.[13]
- Joe Sakic – National Hockey League centre for the Colorado Avalanche. Born in Burnaby, British Columbia
- Shannon Sharpe – former NFL player for the Denver Broncos, sports commentator, CBS, born in Chicago, Illinois
- Mark Schlereth – former NFL Pro Bowl offensive guard for the Denver Broncos
- Soapy Smith – Denver crime boss from 1885–96.[14] born in Coweta County, Georgia
- Manick Sorcar – artist, engineer, and entrepreneur
- John Warne – bassist of the Christian rock band Relient K
- Wellington Webb – mayor of Denver (1991—2003)
[edit] Other people associated with Denver
[edit] Fictional Denverites
- Mike Teavee in the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Michael Scott in NBC The Office
- Holly Flax in NBC The Office
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Soylent Communications. "Tim Allen". http://www.nndb.com/people/279/000025204/. Retrieved June 5, 2006.
- ^ ATP Tennis. "Victor Amaya". Archived from the original on February 25, 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/20060225164519/http://www.atptennis.com/en/players/playerprofiles/default2.asp?playernumber=A044. Retrieved June 5, 2006.
- ^ America Online. "India Arie". http://music.aol.com/artist/indiaarie/475170/main. Retrieved June 5, 2006.
- ^ Internet Movie Database. "Duane Chapman". http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1738062/. Retrieved June 5, 2006.
- ^ 2theadvocate.com | News | Architect Desmond dies — Baton Rouge, LA
- ^ [1] Dolan's entry at the New Zealand Book Council's directory
- ^ Internet Movie Database. "Jack Earle". http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0247325/. Retrieved June 5, 2006.
- ^ Internet Movie Database. "Hanna R. Hall". http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0355632/. Retrieved June 5, 2006.
- ^ Hoffman, Jascha. "Arnold Kramish, Expert on Nuclear Intelligence, Dies at 87", The New York Times, July 15, 2010. Accessed July 15, 2010.
- ^ Internet Movie Database. "Frank Welker". http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0919798/. Retrieved June 5, 2006.
- ^ FOX Network. "Ace Young". Archived from the original on May 28, 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/20060528185733/http://www.americanidol.com/contestants/ace_young/. Retrieved June 2, 2006.
- ^ Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607–1896. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. 1963.
- ^ Andrew Jackson Rogers, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed September 2, 2007.
- ^ The Soapy Smith Preservation Trust. "Soapy in Denver". http://www.soapysmith.net/page2.html/. Retrieved June 29, 2006.[dead link]
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